initial support for the plan. Schonfeld considered as another failure his unsuccessful request to the British government to heed Rabbi Weissmandl's plea to bomb the railroad tracks to Auschwitz and possibly the crematoria. After the war he went to liberated Europe (e.g. Poland) to bring children and others to England, help and serve the survivors. After World War II In 1946, after the Allied victory, he went with a convey of lorries to Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps to help survivors move to fledgling communities. He travelled in an Austin 7 car with armed soldiers for protection. He created and wore a military style uniform to give the impression he was an army officer. He founded the Hasmonean High School and the other schools that formed the Jewish Secondary Schools Movement. Family life Schonfeld was the son of Avigdor (Victor) Schonfeld, rabbi of the Adath Yisroel Synagogue and founder and principal of what became known as the Avigdor School (posthumously named in his honour). In 1940 he married Judith Hertz, daughter of the aforementioned Chief Rabbi Joseph H. Hertz, with whom he had three sons between 1940 and 1951. They lived in Highgate, north London. One of the sons, Victor, died in May 2022. Death Schonfeld died in 1984 of a long-term brain tumour. He was posthumously given the British Hero of the Holocaust award in 2013. Recorded talks and music David Kranzler z"l - Four Jewish Rescuers Dr. David Kranzler: Jewish rescuer Rabbi Solomon Schonfeld Prof. David Kranzler: Rabbi Solomon Schoenfeld - a Jewish Wallenberg The Rescuers (song) Sources References 1912 births 1984 deaths 20th-century English rabbis British Orthodox rabbis Rabbis from London English people of Hungarian-Jewish descent People from Highgate Anti-Zionist Orthodox rabbis